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vocabulary
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| Inside the Archive – the politics and poetics of collecting | ||
| Collectors connoisseurs cataloguers recorders archivists gatherers pack rats fans fanatics enthusiasts I archaeologists detectives |
Collectibles
memoirs souvenirs documentation manuscripts snapshots relics fragments vestiges notes diary correspondence sketches minutia journals annals data files knickknacks mementoes keepsake trace residue evidence remnant scrap possession trinkets stuff |
Storage
and Display library shelves stacks piles database – digital/analogue archive attic reliquary closet sanctuary microfilm file basement storage shoe box cigar box museum mausoleum encyclopaedia vitrine frame tomb |
Systems and Methods of Ordering catalogue classify chronology cross-reference describe order index alphabetize arrange structuralise categorize group cluster register associate relate Dewey Decimal System taxonomy museology archaeology cosmology forensics notation hierarchy structure prioritize edit systematize sort carbon dating verify falsify sanctify label number reify mummify preserve hide curate interpret anagoge bless |
Impetus
for Collecting fascination external reminder history posterity compulsion obsession future testimony unfinished business recollection memory inheritance heritage past problems for future solutions I was here sacred holy artefact preservation |
Collection
Disorders fanaticism addiction falsification fraud neurosis delusions of grandeur greed narcissism vanity the inability to let things go:hoarder parsimony materialism Imelda Marcos Syndrome OCD Obsessive Compulsive Disorder misinterpretation manipulation of the facts thief |
Status,
Value and Significance
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